Cut Time, the 2003 book by Professor of English Carlo Rotella that chronicles his immersion in the boxing world, has been cited as one of the five best sports books of all time by Gordon Marino, author of The Existentialist’s Survival Guide, for a piece in the Wall Street Journal. Rotella is the director of BC’s American Studies program and the author of Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt and Playing in Time: Essays, Profiles, and Other True Stories, among other works.